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Specificaton of Letters Patent.

Appucation filea .my s, 1911.

Patentea sept. 24,1912.

Serial NO. 637,462.

To all whom it may coacem:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM P. FoRN- FINNE, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of NewYork, have invented new and useful Improvements in Chip-Holders, of

lwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements iu holders for butter chips, theobject of the invention being to provide a device of this characterwherein the chi may be readily inserted or removed, the evice comprisingsubstantially a bowl of a cone-shaped formation having its Sideschanneled or otherwise depressed to accommodate the fingers of theattendant in removing the chip from the bowl, the chip being alsopositioned above the bottom of the bowl to provide a receptacle orchamber for ice.

With the above objects in view, and others which will appear as thenature of the invention progresses, the improvement resides in the novelconstruction and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described andclaimed.

In the drawings, accompanying this specification, there has beenillustrated a. simple and approved chip holder constructed in accordancewith the present invention, and in which drawings Figure 1 is aperspective view of the improved chip holder. Fig. 2 is a verticallongitudinal sectional view showing the chip in osition within theholder.

s is well known, the cubes or squares of butter are either served uponindividual chips or upon a platter containing a Sufficient number ofchips for the occupants of the table. In the latter case, the platteroccupies a large space which would otherwise have been occupied byvarious other dishes. In the first instance, the butter upon the chipmay not be suflicient for the requirements of the eater and he is forcedto call upon the waiter for more butter. Besides, the butter upon thechip being subjected to the heat of the room is liable to melt beforebeing used by the eater. In the latter instance, the cubes of butter arealso susceptible to melting and the platter is, as aforesaid, of such asize as to occupy too large a space upon the table.

In the drawing, the numeral 1 designates my improved chip holder. Thisholder 1 embodies essentially a bowl 2, the latter being of asubstantially cone-shaped formation, and the sides of the bowl areprovided at intervals with outwardly depressed portions forming groovesor channels 3. These grooves 3 are arranged at an inclination similar tothe body of the bowl 2, and arranged within the said bowl and contactingthe sides thereof, so as to be sustained away from the bottom 4 of thesaid bowl, is a chip holding plate or disk 5. The space between the chipdisk 5 and the bottom 4 is adapted to provide a Chamber for thereception of shaved or broken ice, as indicated by the numeral 6, andthe disk tself is of course adapted to contain cubes of butter. Theimproved holder may be Constructed of any desired or approved material,and the said holder has its bottom 4 provided with a downwardlyextending stem 7, the said stem terminating upon a suitable base 8.

By an arrangement, as above stated, it will be noted that the outwardlyextending grooved portions 3 provide means whereby the attendant mayreadily insert his fingers so as to remove the chip 5 from the bowl 2,and at the same time the said grooves provide means whereby water fromthe chamber -6 may find egress when the device is tilted withoutnecessitating the removal of the disk 5. In this instance, a suitableclosure is placed over the open top of the bowl to prevent the cubes ofbutter as well as the top from being removed from the bowl.

It is to be understood that the holder comprises a substantially smallarticle and that the grooves or channels 3 are arranged in pairs whichare diametrically opposite each other, the space between the pairs ofdepressions being only great enough to permit of the forefinger andthumb of the attendant passing therein to engage with and remove one ofthe butter chips from the chip holding disks 5.

The device is constructed so as to occupy only a small space upon thetable, and the Simplicity of the construction, as well as the advantagesthereof, will, it is thought, commend themselves to those skilled in theart to which such inventions appertain without further detaileddescription.

Having thus fully described the said invention. what I claim is A chipholder comprising a base having' a stem and a cone-shaped bowl connectedwith the stem, the said bowl adapted to reangle to the second pair ofdepressions, sub- Stantially as and for the Purpose set forth. 10 V Intestimony Whereof I afix niy Signature in presence of tWo Witnesses.

' VVILLIAM P. FORNFINNE.

WVitnesses:

M. S. HENRY,

B. B. COTTRELL.

ceive a chip sustaining disk and to provide an ice chalnber between thebottom of the chip and the bottom of the boWl, the said boWl having itsinner face formed With finger depressions, the said depressions beingarranged in pairs which are diametrically opposite each other, and oneof the pairs of depressions being arranged at a direct right Gop'ies ofthis patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing theCommissoner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. i 1

